Nationalt Videnscenter for Demens

What Nationalt Videnscenter for Demens does

Nationalt Videnscenter for Demens (the Danish Dementia Research Centre) is Denmark's national knowledge center for dementia, founded in 2007 and headquartered at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen under the Capital Region of Denmark (Region Hovedstaden). It operates three integrated pillars: a memory clinic providing patient care at Rigshospitalet (Blegdamsvej) and Bornholm, clinical research on dementia diseases and care, and nationwide education for healthcare professionals. The center is funded by the Danish Ministry of Health and serves as the authoritative source for Danish dementia guidelines, standards, and best practices under the National Dementia Action Plan 2025.

Its core offerings include the free ABC Demens e-learning platform (14+ courses covering palliative care, antipsychotic prevention, nutrition, delirium, challenging behavior, pain, medication, and dementia-friendly hospital care), Værktøjskassen (a professional toolkit with clinical assessment instruments), Hverdagslivet med Demens (dementia-friendly design guidance), and a portfolio of assessment tools including BASIC-Q, CAM (Confusion Assessment Method), NPI-NH, MAI-10, Blomsten (the Flower assessment), and the 4-step model. The center also convenes national networks for dementia evaluation units, municipal ambassadors, dementia-friendly hospitals, and CST group leaders, and operates programs for dementia-friendly hospitals, municipalities, and housing.

The organization functions primarily as a publicly funded public-good entity: the ABC Demens platform and core knowledge resources are provided free of charge, with supplemental revenue from paid courses, themedays, the DemensDagene annual conference, and a webshop selling educational materials. Customer segments are healthcare professionals, municipal care workers, hospital staff and management, and to a lesser extent people with dementia and their families. The primary 'customer' in financial terms is the Danish government via the Ministry of Health and Region Hovedstaden.

Name

Nationalt Videnscenter for Demens

Legal name

Nationalt Videnscenter for Demens

Website

https://videnscenterfordemens.dk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Nationalt Videnscenter for Demens is Denmark's national dementia knowledge center, embedded in Rigshospitalet and Region Hovedstaden, providing free e-learning (ABC Demens), clinical assessment tools, memory clinic services, and national network coordination for healthcare professionals, municipalities, and hospitals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Copenhagen

HQ country

Denmark

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Government Funding: As a national knowledge center under the Danish healthcare system, the center receives government funding from the Danish Ministry of Health and is part of Rigshospitalet/Region Hovedstaden. CVR: 29190623, EAN: 5798001023009.
2. E-learning and Educational Courses: Free ABC Demens e-learning platform for healthcare professionals; fee-based courses and themedays for professional development in dementia care.
3. Webshop Sales: Sale of educational materials, guides, pocket guides, and professional resources through the webshop.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Nationalt Videnscenter for Demens is Denmark's national knowledge center for dementia, delivering clinical research, evidence-based education, and assessment tools to healthcare professionals across hospitals, municipalities, and care homes. Its core offerings are the free ABC Demens e-learning platform (14 courses), the Værktøjskassen professional toolkit of validated assessment instruments (BASIC-Q, CAM-skema, NPI-NH, MAI-10, Blomsten, 4-trinsmodellen), the Hverdagslivet med Demens environment-design resource, and the Hukommelsesklinikken memory clinic at Rigshospitalet.

Product overview

Nationalt Videnscenter for Demens operates as a knowledge center offering a unified platform of educational, clinical, and research services focused on dementia. The core product portfolio includes ABC Demens (a free e-learning platform with multiple themed courses), Værktøjskassen (a professional toolkit with assessment instruments), Hverdagslivet med Demens (dementia-friendly design information), and Hukommelsesklinikken (clinical memory clinic services). The organization also runs dementia-friendly initiatives for hospitals, municipalities, and housing. Assessment tools include BASIC-Q, CAM-skema, NPI-NH, MAI-10, Blomsten, and 4-trinsmodellen.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ABC Demens E-Learning Platform Free web-based e-learning platform providing 14 themed courses for healthcare professionals on dementia care topics including palliative care, antipsychotic prevention, nutrition, hospital dementia-friendly care, challenging behavior, pain, infections, medication, and delirium.
• Værktøjskassen (Professional Toolkit) Concept for teaching, support, and counseling of people with dementia and relatives, containing professional tools, manuals, videos, and assessment instruments for clinical evaluation.
• Hverdagslivet med Demens (Information Platform) Information platform providing advice and inspiration on dementia-friendly design of outdoor and indoor environments to support people with dementia.
• Hukommelsesklinikken (Memory Clinic) Hospital-based clinical memory clinic at Rigshospitalet receiving patients at Blegdamsvej and Bornholm; provides patient care, clinical research, and education.
• BASIC-Q Screening Tool Screening questionnaire for early identification of patients with cognitive impairment.
• CAM (Confusion Assessment Method) Screening instrument to identify delirium in patients with cognitive impairment, intended for repeated administration as the condition can fluctuate.
• NPI-NH (Neuropsychiatric Inventory for Nursing Homes) Interview-based instrument with supporting materials for characterizing neuropsychiatric symptoms in nursing home residents with dementia.
• MAI-10 Pain Assessment Tool Pain assessment questionnaire for systematic observation and evaluation of pain signs in persons with severely impaired verbal communication ability.
• Blomsten (The Flower) Person-Centered Care Tool Assessment instrument to determine whether a person with dementia has their psychological needs met, central to person-centered care practice.
• 4-trinsmodellen (4-Step Model) 4-step model for systematic observation of distress, identification of causes, initiation of actions, and evaluation.
• Demensvenlige sygehuse (Dementia-Friendly Hospitals Program) Program providing standards, staff training, work procedures, and volunteer comfort person frameworks to make Danish hospitals dementia-friendly.
• Demensvenlige kommuner (Dementia-Friendly Municipalities Program) Municipal program supporting all 98 Danish municipalities to become dementia-friendly through guidance and tools.
• Demensvenlige boliger (Dementia-Friendly Housing Program) Housing program providing guidance on dementia-friendly environmental design to support quality of life for people with dementia.
• Webshop (Educational Materials) Online store selling educational materials including the pocket guide 'Demens og observation af fysiske symptomer' and other professional resources.

Quantifiable outcome

• 14 free e-learning courses available for healthcare professionals
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Feature8 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and major.

• Sundhedsministeriet (Danish Ministry of Health)coreOthers · 1 January 2025The center operates under government mandate funded by the Danish Ministry of Health as the national dementia knowledge center. The voluntary comfort person project was funded through Finance Law 2019.
• Eight Danish HospitalscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Eight Danish hospitals participated in a collaborative project to implement voluntary 'comfort persons' (tryghedspersoner) for patients with dementia during hospital visits. Hospitals included Odense Universitetshospital Svendborg, Geriatrisk afdeling Glostrup Hospital, Nykøbing F. Sygehus, Aalborg Universitetshospital Hobro, and others. The center coordinated the project and conducted experience gathering.
• Røde Kors (Danish Red Cross)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRøde Kors collaborated on the voluntary comfort person project, with their volunteer patient support groups already present in many Danish hospitals. Røde Kors offers courses in dementia to equip their volunteers to support patients with cognitive challenges.
• Rigshospitalet / Region HovedstadencoreOthersThe center is organizationally part of Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen and Region Hovedstaden (Capital Region of Denmark). The Memory Clinic operates within Rigshospitalet's neurology department.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Alzheimer's Society (UK): UK dementia charity providing research funding, professional training, dementia-friendly community programs, and information resources. Closest structural analogue: a single national organization combining knowledge dissemination, workforce training, and dementia-friendly initiatives for a country.
• Alzheimer's Association (US): Largest US nonprofit dedicated to dementia research, education, and care support. Comparable as a national knowledge/advocacy hub combining research dissemination, professional training programs, and clinical guidance for dementia — analogous role to the Danish center but at much greater scale.
• Dementia UK: UK charity operating the Admiral Nurse service for dementia, alongside professional education and family support resources. Comparable mix of clinical specialist service, professional training, and family-facing resources.
• Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Ageing and Health (Aldring og helse): Norway's national competence center on aging and health, focused on dementia and elderly care education, guidelines, and workforce training. The most directly comparable Nordic peer given shared welfare-state model, similar mandate, and overlapping professional audience.
• UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI): UK's national dementia research institute combining discovery science with translational and clinical programs. Comparable in being a publicly funded, nationally designated dementia center, though more research-heavy than the Danish center's clinical-education-research balance.

Regional players

• Dementia Australia: Australia's national dementia peak body delivering education, training, and dementia-friendly programs across Australian states. Comparable mission and program portfolio (dementia-friendly communities, professional education, resources for clinicians and families), though serving a different geography.

Emerging players

• Amsterdam UMC Alzheimercentrum: Dutch academic memory clinic and research center within Amsterdam UMC combining patient care, clinical research, and professional education. Comparable as a hospital-integrated memory clinic + research + education entity in a neighboring country.

Broad incumbents

• Alzheimer Europe: European umbrella organization representing national dementia associations and policy work across EU member states. Comparable in function as a knowledge and policy hub for dementia, but operating at supranational scope rather than as a single-country delivery vehicle.
• NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (UK dementia portfolio): UK's government-funded applied research infrastructure covering dementia and aging. Comparable as a publicly funded national delivery vehicle for dementia evidence into practice, though operating as a distributed network rather than a single institution.

Others

• Karolinska Institutet (Aging Research Center): Swedish medical university with a major dementia and aging research portfolio. Comparable as a Nordic academic institution generating dementia evidence base and training clinicians, but not organized as a single national knowledge center.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Profiles2 records

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